If Contador is suspended, what happens to Saxo Bank team?

donrhummy
donrhummy Posts: 2,329
edited October 2010 in Pro race
Assuming he's suspended, does the team fold? Is almost everyone out of a job?

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,805
    depends

    have they signed?

    is there a bug out clause in the event of drug scandal ?

    dunno


    lawyers etc=tedious BS
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,150
    All of the sponsors will leave. All of the riders will leave - except one. Richie Porte.

    Riis will have a spare $100k knocking about and Porte is under contract, so he has to stay.

    Sure he's a little overpaid for his ironing, mowing, babysitting etc. But it's a contract. It can't be broken if circumstances change.
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  • Gingerflash
    Gingerflash Posts: 239
    I'd predict Saxo would pull out and the team would implode.

    RichN95 has a good point though. Porte will have to stay on a Riis' man-servant for the year.
  • matsegers
    matsegers Posts: 7
    No doubt there's an out-clause. I would suspect this to be the norm in pro-cycling.

    Riis could sign all the French riders soon to be released from Bouygues :-)
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Porte has agreed to stay on with Riis.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Gingerflash
    Gingerflash Posts: 239
    "Riis could sign all the French riders soon to be released from Bouygues"

    And all those left unemployed after the Cervelo fiasco.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490
    Having lost his current crop of big name riders and with his one new rider suspended I would suspect that Saxo would use the opportunity to get out.
  • mrushton
    mrushton Posts: 5,182
    Riis could say he was unaware of the riders past and has released him from his contract. Any 'misbehviour' was done under the Astana banner not Saxo
    M.Rushton
  • robert-sb
    robert-sb Posts: 118
    Maybe I'm being ultra cynical but Contador is still under contract to Astana until the end of the year and so technically is not a Saxo Bank rider - therefore Riis' team have not yet committed a drugs offence.

    I just think it will continue as before unless a rider is busted on Riis' watch.

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